"A Whole New World" is the signature song from Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 50th Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television at the 36th Grammy Awards, as well as a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, the only Disney song to do so. In the same year, the pop version sung by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals, winning the latter.
Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott performed the song in the live-action version of Aladdin (2019). Zayn Malik and Zhavia Ward did their version of the song for the end credits.
Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle pop duet version
A single version of the song was released that same year and was performed by American recording artists Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle. This version is played over the film's end credits and is referred on the soundtrack as "Aladdins Theme". replacing Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", which had spent a then-record 14 weeks at the top of the chart. It went gold and sold 600,000 copies domestically. The track peaked at number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in 1993.
Critical reception
Alan Jones from Music Week gave the song a full score of five out of five, writing, "The theme from Aladdin is a huge appealing big ballad duet. A melodic tour de force with wide ranging appeal, it is wisely tipped as the Christmas number one."
Charts
Weekly charts
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!Chart (1993–1994)
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|Canada Retail Singles (The Record)
|align="center"|2
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|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)
|align="center"|24
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|Europe (European Hit Radio)
|align="center"|26
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|Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)
|align="center"|2
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|UK Airplay (Music Week)
|align="center"|8
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|US Cash Box Top 100
|align="center"|2
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Year-end charts
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!Chart (1993)
!Position
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|Australia (ARIA)
|align="center"|50
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|Canada Top Singles (RPM)
|align="center"|56
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|Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)
|align="center"|6
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|New Zealand (RIANZ)
|align="center"|37
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|US Billboard Hot 100
|align="center"|18
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|US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)
|align="center"|6
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|US Hot R&B Singles (Billboard)
|align="center"|98
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|US Cash Box Top 100
|align="center"|27
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!Chart (1994)
!Position
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|Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)
|align="center"|34
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|UK Singles (OCC)
|align="center"|182
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